Hi, all.
At home, I have a mailbox where mbox is the default (for inbox and some smaller mailboxes) and all my lists are in a Maildir format.
I'm building a mailstore server at work where I want to use Maildir as the default mailstore, but I want to keep mbox on the side to aid in archiving messages.
My configs are as follows for mail location and namespaces:
Home:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes hidden = no prefix = "mbox/" location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "Maildir/" location = maildir:~/Maildir }
Work:
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = "Maildir/" location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace private { separator = / hidden = no prefix = "mbox/" location = mbox:~/mail }
Here's the thing:
My home mailbox server looks the way it should, offering me "mbox" and "Maildir" names to expand for more mailboxes.
Work on the other hand, by and large, works as well (in fact, I based its config on the home machine's config with some slight changes). However, strange things started happening the moment I did a "mkdir ~/mail" while I was at the machine's prompt to make ready for an mbox repository. My mail program nearly immediately shows a "phantom message" in the main inbox. If I try to select this "phantom message", the mailer goes into a very tight loop (I've tried this with Seamonkey and T'bird with the same results. I get cycles of these in the log:
Jun 12 11:29:14 (censored) dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y Jun 12 11:29:14 (censored) dovecot: IMAP(xxx): FETCH for mailbox INBOX UID 3 got too little data: 0 vs 512 Jun 12 11:29:14 (censored) dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): Disconnected: Disconnected
I'm running the Dovecot 1.0.0 under FreeBSD 4.11 (work) (I can't run anything later on this machine, strangely enough; I haven't tried any of the later releases since updating the BIOS recently, however) and 1.0.rc17 under Ubuntu Feisty (home).
If I need to provide more info, please let me know. I'd also be interested to know if it's something dumb I'm doing or if it perhaps may be a bug.
Thanks!
--Ian.